26th February 2015, Brussels. After 24 months, the LAMPRE project is going to its conclusion. The final project review meeting with the Project Officer, Florence Beroud, the Project Coordinator and all partners will take place at the Research Executive Agency of the European Commission.

25th of February 2015, Brussels. The International Final Dissemination Conference of LAMPRE "Improved Landslide Mapping and Modelling for Preparedness and Mitigation and for Post-Event Recovery and Reconstruction" will be organised at the Geological Survey of Belgium (GSB), in the Grand Auditorium room, at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.

19-22 January 2015, San José. A dissemination and Training workshop on Earth Observation based technologies and their application in the management of natural hazards will engage at Universidad de Costa Rica a wide range of potential users of LAMPRE products, including authorities, institutions and commissions, responsible for the natural risks in the Central and South American region, as well as researchers and geologists who are experts in the data management in the context of natural disasters.

4 December 2014, Bruxelles - Representatives of FP7-Space projects (PREFER, PHAROS, LAMPRE, FLOODIS, SENSUM, IncREO, RASOR, APhoRISM, FAST) related to the Copernicus Emergency Management Service together with representatives of the European Commission services potentially interested in these services met in Brussels at the Research Executive Agency (REA). The purpose of the Emergency Projects workshop was to identify and/or develop cooperation opportunities between players of the FP7 projects, in view to support the sustainability of the services.

The 'Into Space’ brochure has just been published and is now available on the EU bookshop website. It includes the projects co-financed by the European Commission and managed by the Research Executive Agency (REA) under the 6th call for proposals of the 7th Framework Programme for Space Research in the domains of Copernicus – related Applications and Data, Space Technologies, Space Science and Data Exploitation, Space Weather and Space Situational Awareness.

30 October 2014, Genoa. Fausto Guzzetti (CNR-IRPI) talked about "European satellite data and technology to help detect, map and monitor landslides", presenting the results of the two FP7-Space projects LAMPRE and DORIS at the European Space Expo.

6-7-8 October 2014, Genova, Italy - The second Exploitation workshop of LAMPRE engaged in Genoa, project partners and members of the Stakeholder and User Group to discuss the progress of the project from the perspective of strategic exploitation and sustainabilty of the project outcomes.

26-27 June, Vilnius, Lithuania - The meeting on exploitation of LAMPRE EO-based products and service organised by GMX in Lithuania saw project partners CNR, KCL, ALTA, BOOZ&Co, GMX and UP discussing to advance the business plan for LAMPRE products and services, leveraging on the project outcomes and taking into account the Copernicus Emergency Management Service context and target markets.

11-13 June 2014, Prague, Czech Republic - LAMPRE will take part at the European Space Solutions Conference. This 3-day conference will involve a wide audience of users and developers of space-based solutions to discuss about the potential for using space technologies from the Galileo/EGNOS (navigation) and Copernicus (Earth observation) programmes.

27 March 2014 - Florence, Italy – Alessandro Mondini (CNR-IRPI) gave an oral presentation about LAMPRE "Earth Observation methods for rapid mapping of event landslides" applied in the LAMPRE project at an audience of 30 researchers at University of Florence.

February 2014, Bari, Italy - Oral presentation about the communication approach of LAMPRE provided at the SPACE4YOU Conference, promoted by Apulia Region and NEREUS (Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies).

The GEO-X and 2014 Ministerial Summit had one major outcome, which is Ministers – through a declaration – to decide the continuation of GEO after 2015 and give a mandate to define the “Second Implementation Plan 2025”. The Ministers are also expected to review the progress against the GEOSS Strategic Targets and to confirm their commitment to complete the current 2005-2015 Implementation Plan.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement nº 312384. LAMPRE is managed by the Research Executive Agency (REA)